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The Revenue Online Services requires you to complete a three step registration process. Two of these steps involve them posting a letter to you at your registered taxation address (so remember to update your address if you move home).

For Self Employed persons, you are completing Part A of the form. You are Registering for Income Tax (Tax Type) and the ID No. is your PPS Number. Once you have completed this, click on “Submit”.

You will then be presented with another form to enter your name, and telephone number. Before clicking submit.

It is then a matter of waiting a week or two for them to post out your RAN (Revenue Online Services Access Number).

Step 2 – Apply for your Digital Certificate.

As instructed in the letter the Revenue team post you, you then need to go back to the website mentioned above: Register for Online Services.

Click onto the “Apply for Digital Certificate” button.

This will present you with a screen to enter your ROS Access Number (Mailed to you in Step 1). You will also be required to enter your Tax Registration Number (PPSN) and your correspondance email address.

Before you can move onto step 3, Revenue will post you another letter, so as you can access your Digital Certificate.

Step 3 – Retrieving Digital Certificate

You can follow the instruction on the letter posted to you. You will then be able to log into ROS.

There are many free, and cheap ways to advertise your business in Ireland. Some of these methods require a little outlay to begin with. Some require no outlay.

Lets begin with the free methods (assuming you have your website setup). Begin with listing your website and business on both Google Webmaster tools, as well as Google Plus (that Google+ page plays a very important role in Google Search Engine Result Pages (SERPS).

For the less techie of folks, I have created a few YouTube videos to show you how to create your website to advertise your Irish Business.

Once you have got your business website created the next obvious step is to Optimise the Website for Search Engines to crawl – SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation. I offer a number of services to benefit you in this manner. With fast results. If you are interested then please get in touch, by either commenting on the Blog, or sending me an email.

Also note: Unlike in the UK where you can just trade under a business name without registering that name (IE: John Murphy T/a Murphy Builders). In Ireland you must register any business name you trade under (even if a sole trader), unless that name IS YOUR NAME – IE:

A builder called “John Murphy” could trade under the name of “Murphy” “John Murphy” or “J Murphy” without registering this business name. Should he wish to trade as “XYZ Builders” or even “Murphy Builders” he would be required to register the business name. See more here: Business name registration in Ireland

One of the major parts of the Surinder Singh route is that you need to be economically active. This means that you are required to either work for an employer, or be a self employed person.

Finding a job in the Republic of Ireland is therefore one of your main priorities – although it is not essential for the first three months of residence.

EEA Nationals

You are entitled to be treated just like an Irish national when you apply for any job in Ireland. You are free to apply for any job vacancy, including jobs in the public sector. These include jobs in the Irish army and the Irish police force (An Garda Síochána), but not the Irish diplomatic service.

Non-EEA Nationals

In general non-EEA nationals (apart from some exceptions) must have a employment permit to work in Ireland. One of the exceptions is that Persons with permission to remain as spouse or a dependent of an Irish/EEA national do not require a work permit. Note: If you applied for a visa to join your EU spouse, you will therefore fall into this category and not require a work permit. You are not required to wait for your EEA National family member to work before you can start employment. This is because for the first three months of residence, there are not any conditions for the EEA National to be a qualified person.

It is worth printing off a ton of CV’s and covering letters to these types of companies to just have a walk around town and hand them in. It might also be worth taking a look on Google to find some email addresses and applying for jobs before you leave for Ireland.